Legion Launch Survival Guide and J!NX Giveaway

Legion, World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, is now live on all realms. The Wowhead team has compiled a list of our most useful guides and content to help you pick your artifact, play your spec, quest through the Broken Isles, and gear up for Emerald Nightmare!

Our database is updated for Legion and filled with useful comments and screenshots from our beta testers! Thank you to everyone who participated in our beta key contests and contributed to Wowhead's wealth of information, be it screenshots, comments, guides, or client uploads. Join the Wowhead Discord to chat with more members of the site's community.

Legion Basics

The max level in Legion is 110. You can start questing in the Broken Isles at 98.

The new class in Legion is the Cacciatore di Demoni. This class was open to Early Access players in August.

Leveling Zones in Legion dynamically scale; you can start questing in one of four zones.

There are no weapon drops in Legion; your Artifact serves as your weapon throughout the expansion. Artifacts are powerful weapons steeped in lore, with traits and relics to enhance gameplay, and a variety of appearances for transmog.

There are 10 new dungeons available at Legion's launch, with profession, class campaign, and world quests that offer additional incentives to run them. Mythic+ is a new difficulty that replaces Challenge Modes for skilled players.

World Quests are max-level quests that provide a variety of rewards, enhanced through the Emissary system for additional bonuses. Additional max-level solo content is the outdoor zone Suramar with the elaborate quest achievement Il buon suramaritano.

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Classes

Members of the WoW community have been updating their Wowhead class guides for Legion. These guides detail abilities, priorities, talents, gear recommendations, artifact paths, legendaries, and consumables. Click on the class icons below to be taken to the guides for that class' spec.

Artifacts

Artifacts are ultimate, powerful weapons designed for a hero. From Ashbringer to Doomhammer, these weapons are steeped in lore. Artifact Weapons impact your gameplay in several major ways: they serve as your only weapon in Legion, they buff specific abilities via traits, and they increase your ilvl through relic gems. They also have a fun transmog component as there are 20 appearances to unlock at launch.

The main artifact weapon guide on Wowhead, covering all topics in great detail, is the Guide to Artifact Weapons by jjanchan. In this guide you will find:

Acquiring and Spending Artifact Power and Knowledge covers how to earn the currency to purchase more Artifact Weapon traits and how much each costs! This can be sped up at level 110 with Artifact Knowledge, a system that grants you more power than usual from Artifact items.

Gearing Up in Legion

Gear in Legion is designed around a fresh perspective; there are equivalent gearing paths and gear from most content has a small chance to proc the highest possible item level. For a few weeks at launch, the maximum cap is 850; it will increase to 895 later in Legion.

If an item appears up to 10 ilvls above the base, it will be marked as Warforged in the tooltip. If an item procs +15 or higher, it wll be marked as Titanforged. For example, If you love solo questing, there's a small chance your rewards from World Quests can proc Titanforged and be the same level as loot from a Mythic Dungeon.

Personal loot can now be traded. To trade it, you must have previously looted an item for that slot that is of the same ilvl or higher. This means that if you previously looted an ilvl 720 trinket and you win an ilvl 710 trinket, you can trade it to others.

World Quests are a new max-level quest system. There is a small chance these quests will reward gear; the rewards start at ilvl 805 and progressively better ones are available as your ilvl increases.

Crafted Gear: The best crafted gear starts at ilvl 815 after completing a long questline. This can be upgraded to 850 via the Obliterum Forge and Obliterum, which is created by incinerating old crafted gear.

Class Hall Set: Each piece of the Class Hall set is acquired by completing Legion Content, such as killing dungeon bosses or earning reputation. Each piece has a fixed ilvl between 810 and 850, and players can purchase upgrade tokens so eventually the full set can reach 840 (with shoulders at 850).

World Bosses are up at launch, when their corresponding World Quest is up. They drop 850 loot; after raids open, they will drop 860 loot.

Reputation Gear: There are ilvl 820 items at Revered and ilvl 850 items at Exalted. Nightfallen reputation also has a few more items at Friendly and Revered.

Legendaries are ilvl 895 world drops and come with a powerful effect which transforms one of your spec abilities. You can only equip one at launch.

Leveling

When first questing in Legion, if you have not completed the Broken Shore scenario or Demon Hunter Starting zone, you must do so first. These can be started at level 98 and there are "hidden" items in each starting zone you'll want to pick up for fun, as you can't go back later! These items are covered in our starter quest guide.

Once you've acquired your artifact, you can choose between four zones to quest in! There is no set starting zone; the enemy mobs and item rewards will scale to your current level. Our zone overviews cover the unique items from each zone and leveling paths by TemerityMyst:

Val'sharah, a zone steeped in Druidic lore, is battling the corruption of the Emerald Nightmare. Quests award Dreamweavers reputation.

Highmountain, home to the Highmountain Tauren, is a mountainous land with waterfalls and rivers reminiscent of Yosemite. Quests award Highmountain reputation.

Azsuna, home to the former Highborne, is a land rich in magical leylines and magic so condensed that it has formed crystals. Quests award Court of Farondis reputation.

Stormheim, home of Stormdrakes and the Vrykul, examines the tensions between the Alliance and the Horde admist the backdrop of rugged highlands and epic statues. Navigating around the steep cliffs will require the special Grappling Hook from questing. Quests award Valarjar reputation.

At level 110, you can quest through Suramar, a tragic zone dramatically split between the Nightfallen and Nightborne. User varenne has provided comments and videos to every quest, detailed in Il buon suramaritano, and Voxxel has written the Comprehensive Suramar Guide covering the currency, questlines, rewards, and more.

Court of Stars and The Arcway require Nightfallen rep, and are Mythic-only. As an incentive to run these dungeons which require extra effort, loot includes special two-piece sets with equip bonuses.

Our guides outline strategies and important role-based responsibilities for all of the dungeon bosses, as well as some tips on particularly threatening trash mobs. They also highlight loot, any profession-related dungeon quests, and World Quests that send you into the dungeon to kill a special rare.

World Quests

World Quests spawn across the Broken Isles for max-level players, providing a variety of objectives and rewards ranging from gear to Artifact Power to gold. There are even quests for more niche content like professions, battle pets, and PvP. Since they spawn at random around the world, on different spawn timers, they should feel less repetitive than daily quests.

As an incentive to do particular quests for a faction, there are different Emissaries up each day, who grant a special bonus cache for completing 4 quests for a faction. These can even contain legendaries or Redini del Predatore di Llothien.

Our World Quest Overview covers all the rewards and types of World Quests, and Today in Legion will automatically keep track of which dailies are up for each region and their rewards. You can even see the quest locations on maps and filter to only see certain types of World Quests.

Professions

Professions in Legion emphasize the fantasy of a crafter, traveling around the world to discover new recipes. Each Legion profession has an elaborate questline sending the player to a number of outdoor zones and dungeons to learn core recipes. You can start Legion crafting at skill level 1.

Class Halls

Class Halls in Legion are elite spaces for you to interact with other heroes of your class and famous NPCs. In your Class Hall, you can spec your artifact weapon, recruit champions, work on Order Advancement tech, and send champions and troops on missions.

Order Advancement Tech Tree and Rewards: This system has six tiers, allowing you to pick between abilities that buff your Class Hall. It culminates in Tier 6 with an ability that lets you equip two legendaries at once. There are also some interesting Tier 2 abilities along the way, which reward hidden artifact appearances, toys, and pets!

Legion Class Hall Overview: Locations to all the class halls, how to acquire the Class Hall Set, videos of each Class Hall, and a list of all the unique things to do in your Class Hall like speccing your Artifact.

Legion Class Hall Missions: This guide is by Tritox, author of the well-known Follower and Shipyard guides! This will answer any questions about champions, troops, missions, and upgrades.

Class Hall Campaign: In addition to unlocking the third artifact relic slot, the Class Hall Campaign takes you all around the Broken Isles, also rewarding gear, a title, and artifact appearances.

Honor Talents

The PvP season does not start until September 20th, but you can start acquiring Honor talents when Legion launches:

The term "Honor" has a new meaning in Legion. It now refers to a type of PvP experience that unlocks PvP talents. Earning 50 honor levels grants you a "Prestige" level. You can repeat earning honor levels 1-50, earning a new level of Prestige every time. Most PvP activities grant honor.

There are three choices in every Honor Talent row, but not all choices are accessible at first. As you gain honor levels, you unlock the first column top to bottom, and so on. Some talents are shared by all specs of a certain role, some are unique to a class, and some are unique to a spec.

Prestige Levels: When you reach Honor Level 50, you have fully unlocked all available PvP talents. You can turn that Honor in to gain a Prestige Level for a vanity reward, which in turn locks all your Honor Talents again, or simply stay at Honor Level 50 to enjoy full access to talents.

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